Michael Charlton describes the first controlled production of antimatter, a missing 'half' of the stuff of creation. In 1931, motivated by little more than an extraordinary faith in the mathematical...
Supernovae sent Robert P. Kirshner a startling message he did not want to hear - that the universe was expanding rapidly. So maybe Einstein's 'bad idea' was correct after all. It was a warm winter...
When should a professor resign? When should a university choose to dismiss an academic? What constitutes bringing a university into disrepute? The very fact that such...
Vice-chancellor Sir Alec Broers states that Cambridge University council is "emasculated" because every decision can be questioned by a handful of people ("V-c attacks selfish dons", THES , October 4...
It is difficult to compare the differences between Cambridge's and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's intellectual property rights policies, because the two universities are so different ("...
Richard Gregory's elucidation of mirror images (Books, THES , October 4) becomes clear when we imagine a fly crawling over a vertical mirror. If it crawls to our left, the fly "in the mirror" crawls...
The view that modular courses examined at the end of a semester lead to lower levels of educational attainment ("Students choke on bite-sized learning" and Leading article, THES , October 4) is...
Please do not confuse "modularisation" with "semesterisation". Coventry University has a modular system but, apart from a small number of courses, has never been semesterised. Almost all of our...
It is hard to reconcile your critique of semesters with your admiration for top US universities. No one has demeaned my Massachusetts Institute of Technology education because it was organised in 15-...
In responding to my complaints about Luton University appointment procedures (Whistleblowers, THES , September ), pro vice-chancellor Tim Boatswain quotes a Bedford employment tribunal judgment and...
As a bilingual British citizen from a refugee background, home secretary David Blunkett's statement urging parents from bilingual backgrounds to speak English at home disturbs me. I have seen many...
David Warner misses the root cause of why so many students complain to outside agencies (Soapbox, THES , October 4). It is because the internal mechanisms for resolving complaints involves the...
Frank Furedi presents two types of volunteering: traditional and instrumental ("For the greater good of my CV", THES , September ). He says government-driven volunteering to encourage social re-...
Your article "Universities dig in for showdown over targets" ( THES , September 6) reports that the Association of University Teachers has named eight universities that could be "left to go to the...
The juxtaposition of an alarming prediction that "physicists might produce a tiny bubble that expands at nearly the speed of light, destroying first Earth, then the solar system, then all the stars...